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Resources for MIC50.org Conference
The movement to move the money and lots of resources are at http://DefundWar.org
Here are some additional resources:
http://www.oneminuteforpeace.org
How would you spend the federal budget?
Bombs and Budgets Curriculum: A Teaching Guide
Federal Discretionary and Mandatory Spending
Confronting the Military Industrial Complex
Panetta's Weak Case for Potential Military Weakness
Ending Wars on Time Would Save $200 Billion, 1/6 of Debt Reduction Goal
The basics on US foreign interventions and foreign bases.
The Military: Closer to You Than Your Family
Disney, Militarization and the National Security State After 9/11
UVA/Reagan War Hawk Defends Obama's War
UVA Also Plagued by Philip Zelikow
Video of Jo Comerford on federal spending
Why the Jobs Argument Against Military Cuts Is Bogus
Social Scientists can get jobs helping kill people here.
How Much Money Could The Defense Department Save If It Stopped Trying To Save Souls?
Oops I lost a billion-dollar plane.
This conference will propose that Charlottesville City Council pass a resolution asking Congress to bring the war $ home.
Sample resolutions and other resources are available at DefundWar.org
Read about Your Local Military Industrial Complex.
The military in Virginia: PDF.
PVCC effort seeks to qualify more locals for defense intelligence work
The Military as a Jobs Program: There are More Efficient Ways to Stimulate the Economy
But but but other than the military, what choice to do have?
Twisted Up By a Super Coup D'Etat
Is Homeland Security spending paying off?
25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love war
Windfalls of War: Pentagon's No-Bid Contracts Triple in 10 Years of War
The Military-Industrial Complex: A Reading List
Military-Industrial Complex from Eisenhower to Obama
The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex
Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Movements for Peace and Social Justice
The United States Military Machine
Corporations Profit from Permanent War: Memorial Day 2010
It's Cute to Kill: Wal-Mart Is Selling Military Camo Diapers by Huggies
CIA shifts focus to killing targets
Getting kids through school without the military: http://www.safepassagenetwork.org
Bad Business: Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on Hiring Contractors
U.S. Troops Are in 148 Countries
The Congressional 'Supercommittee': Debt Panel or Death Panel?
Global Nonviolent Action Database
Do Biological Weapons Labs Everywhere Make You Feel Safer or Less Safe?
A good book:
The Cold War and Its Origins (Volumes 1 & 2) by D.F. Fleming
The industry we used to have in the United States:
What a job fair looks like now in Charlottesville:
Discussing the situation:
While the Complex likes to threaten job loss and no doubt eliminates jobs in some places but not others, the overall military budget is bigger this year than last year, as has been true for many years, and it has nearly doubled in the past decade.
SOURCE: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/94790.html
